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A33534	Kitchin-physick, or, Advice to the poor by way of dialogue betwixt Philanthropos, physician, Eugenius, apthecary [sic], Lazarus, patient. With rules and directions, how to prevent sickness, and cure diseases by diet ...	Cock, Thomas.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4793_PARTIAL; Wing C792; ESTC R12679	32,867	159

with pity and compassion I speak it thou must I thou must pack up and be gone into some of those horrid regions where people are neither for God nor the King for King nor Parliment no nor for my Lord Mayor nor Common-council I wish also that the Doctor had not intimated and suggested to his Majesty that in good conscience for the good service he has done himself and Royal Father of blessed Memory he ought or can do no less than overthrow or at least new Model and purge with his reforming Physick his College of Physicians and two famous Univerties Cambridge and Oxford But above all things after all thy glorious boasts and brags of Loyalty thou wert bewitch'd to petition the Parliament for no less in effect than his Majesties there own and the peoples lives and liberties for what difference is there betwixt their being ruin'd and their erecting a College for Mempsis with immunities for him his Heirs and Assigns to dispense all the Medicines that must be made use of in his Majesties Dominions This George however reasonable and necessary it seems to thy self yet after thou hast fluttered a little longer like a Feather in the wind thou wilt find that the Parliament will let thee drop and take no more notice of thy Phanatick Freeks and frisking Seminalities of thy brain than if a Tom tit mous an Owl or a Jack-daw had flown over Westminster Let Wisdom baul and utter her voice never so loud let her scream and tear her throat in pieces 't is as thou sayst George all one as if thou shouldst vociferate Neptune to forbear swallowing up Ships since 't is his Nature to do such dirty and mischievous tricks All which the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen taking into their consideration and that there 's no hope that either the King or Parliament will accommodate thee with a College our Senators and City Heroes are at this time preparing one for thee at Moor-gate And now seeing he is so hardly dealt with let his Majesty his two Houses his Nobility and Gentry the Bishops and Clergy the Lawyers and Laity the whole City Town and Country look to it as they will 't is to be seared that whatever Chymick and Hermetick Physick can do shall be done to have the same effects on them as on himself and if Heaven helps not convert them all to non conformity faction and sedition This zealous Mempsis in another place of his Evangelium Chymicum for all he says is Gospel has a hymn to his Creator and by the way let me solemnly tell him I wonder how he dare concern so great a God! in his little designs for putting it into the hearts of rusticks and Mariners with their Punch Brandy and Aqua vitae bottles to teach sottish Galenists the use and excellencies of his well distilled Spirits and the foolery of their dull Julips fulsom and fruitless Apozems Bochets Cullices and Gellies as you may read at large in several Paragraphs and Pages of his Book But to leave these extravagancies and flurts of the Hypocondres Le ts hear what Galen upon Hippocrates says concerning this affair of Aliments This grave Philosopher in his Book De Elementis tells us that by a dissent of the first qualities not from the Punctum latens the little Atoms in the Archeus and Seminal Idaeas in the Materia primâ as our inspired Mempsis will have it but from the dissent of these first Qualities says our Author which proceeds immediately from the Elements themselves and the Aliments man is born for the Physician and were it not for the defects proceeding from these two man could never dye From the four Elements come the four Qualities of heat cold driness and moisture from these arise the temperaments peraments of Aliments and from our Aliments come the four humours call'd Choler Phlegm Blood and Melancholy and out of these humours the parts and from those parts the whole or what we call a humane body and when any of these four temperaments or humours are extinct deprav'd or hurt in Quantity Quality or Motion then follows Sickness and Death So that in effect Life and Death and every mans temper and constitution depends more or less upon the Aliments he feeds on and the humours themselves are nothing more than the effect of food v. .g Choler is the fomes of blood made of Aliments over digested and concocted and serves to ferment agitate or brisk up the constipated Ideas of the Archeus Flegm is made of Food for want of natural heat not enough concocted and bridles choler and keeps the blood and humours from burninig tames and fixes the Spirits and makes the body cool fat moist and soluble Blood is made of Food perfectly elaborated to augment and nourish the parts good Food makes good Blood and good Blood makes good Flesh So that in effect Flesh and Blood is only good Food Melancholy is the Terra damnata The Devil the thick and drossie part of Food and Blood and was intended by Nature to bridle the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the somes or froth of sperm and spirits to temper rage and lust to compose the thoughts and imaginations but being deprav'd it works contrary effects as we see in our friend Mempsis From this little representation of man an intelligent and considering person may find out as easily as by the Idaeas Atomes or Magots in the Archeus how we come by Diseases our dissolution and death and also how necessary a direct and due diet such a diet as may answer to the four temperaments and humours of our bodies choler phlegm blood and Melancholy how necessary this I say is for the preventing and curing Diseases as might be farther amplified but that I must avoid prolixity that the Book may not be too chargeable for the poor Or else it might be made evident that a diet may be collected not only to heat cool dry and moisten but also to Bind Relax Restore Thicken Thin Deobstruate Lenifie Revel Resist Poyson And all things else that Pharmacy it self can necessarily lay claim to towards the conservation of man But this will not consist with a short essay and therefore as concisely as the subject will permit I shall only add a description of the Nature Use and Vertues of an Artificial Bath and stove hereunto annex'd with which our Ambrosiopaeas and a proper Diet may be performed as much as can reasonably be expected from the means What a help it is to Nature to throw off by sweat those saline acid sulphureous and corrosive particles of blood which are the root of all Diseases is manifested by the daily experience of such as are daily relieved by it in Gouts Scorbuts Hecticks the Evil Palsies and the like as it helps thus to discharge the Serum Salsum the salt sharp and watery parts of blood by the skin how far this I say may extend it self both for the preventing and curing many potent Diseases when Diet and other Remedies

Bauds and common Strumpets Gypsies Witches and Conjurers commonly call'd cunning men and women should be most famous in this profession Is it to be supposed that all Universities Colleges and learned Societies as our Mempsis will have it throughout the whole world could remain ignorant after the greatest endeavours they could use as upon Record and in all their Writings they solemnly protest they do if any such thing as these persons boast of by Urin or their Universal Medicines were to be known or attain'd unto Laz. Truly Sir there is something in what you say and it seems to call in question ones discretion to believe all that is talk'd of But I pray Sir would you not have us then bring the Patients water when we come to you Phil. Yes by all means good Lazarus but not with any expectation of conjuring for though there be no certain knowledge of any Disease nor any safe judgement to be given only by the Urine yet it serves often times to indicate or hint something to us Laz. If Urine be thus uncertain and insignificant I pray Sir then how came this custom into such request and what still continues the repute and use of it Phil. All the account I can give you of the original and growth of this errour is chiefly the ignorance and credulity of the vulgar either in not apprehending the devices secret combinations and stratagems of jugling Vro-manticks or else the peoples mistake and fond conceit in thinking the Physicians chiefest skill lay in the Urine meerly because they observed them to view usually the water when they visited the sick and on this mistake but chiefly to prevent the charge of visits as also the Physicians condescention to the imposition has occasion'd the use of this pernicious custom But because there are some other errors I would advise you of in their proper place I shall conclude this Section with these few directions I. That whenever you visit the Physician you ever bring with you the sick persons water only that it may be in a readiness if the Physician sees occasion to require it but not with any expectation of being resolv'd any thing that is certain and material by it II. Though the Physician should omit to ask yet do not you forget to tell him all you know of the sick tell him his age sex calling complexion habit of body and constitution his customs in eating and drinking and what course of life he has led what time he was first taken whether he has a vomiting or looseness or both whether he sleeps much or wants it or has a cough stitches or pains in any part whether his thirst be great or he sweat much and in what part most or whatever else the sick person at that present labours under and complains of and be sure you do not conceil what Medicines he has already taken by the advice or perswasions of others and who they were III. Let your visits be at the beginning and first onset of the Disease and not be put off till the last which makes the Disease not only the more difficult but dangerous also and oftentimes proves fatal you may as well when your house is on fire forbear going about presently to quench it IV. When you have the direction of such a Physician as you ought to confide in be sure you keep to him and punctually in every particular observe his directions a little error herein be it in your Diet or Physick may be your death and run not from one Physician to another though perhaps more eminent and able than the first it being a most certain truth that Multitudo Medicorum Medicinarum c. A multitude of Medicines and Physicians do very often destroy the sick But as to our present concern about Diet take notice That I. All tender temperate sedentary and sickly people all Infants aged idle and decrepit persons ought to eat often but yet very little at once because much food like much fewel thrown upon sire extinguisheth their natural heat and as weak and wasted bodies are to be restored by little and little so also by moist and liquid Aliments rather than dry and solid because that kind of Diet does nourish soonest and digest and distribute easiest II. Those that have an imperfect health or are under any manifest Disease and eat much and get little strength by eating 't is a sign they have used themselves to too full a Diet and the more you cram and cherish such bodies the less they shall thrive by it but grow worse and worse because by much feeding you do but increase the vitiated and bad humours which should be wasted by Bleeding Purging or Abstinence And this should caution all good Women Nurses and Chymists how they importune and impose upon sick persons their comfortable Cordial and good things as they call them and continually encourage the sick say the Physician what he will to be eating one good thing or other to encourage the Archeus To reform this and other unreasonable customs in Diet was instituted in Old times that Order of Physicians call'd Clinicks or such as directed the diseased how to order themselves in sickness which is now the more is the pity lest to the discretion of every idle conceited and ignorant Nurse or Gossip III. Never though in perfect health eat at once till your Appetite be quite satisfied eat not till you have an Appetite and eat not so long till you have none was Galens rule who lived an hundred years without any manifest sickness This Rule also the Emperour Aurelian Cato Seneca and all the samous Dietists carefully observed and without it esteemed Physick but an insipid and insignificant thing When we want our healths we complain that we have taken cold or eaten something hard of digestion or make some such frivolous excuse or other whereas the real cause lyes in a long continued disorderly diet 'T is rare unless we offend in quantity that any food that is common to us or mankind does offend us by its Quality if there be any such thing as Qualitie as there is not says Mempsis IV. If you have eaten or drank too much at once use so much Exercise or Abstinence before you so transgress again as will perfectly digest the superfluity and excess of your former eating and drinking or else there will be a necessity of being beholden to the extraordinary helps of Physick to prevent Gouts Catarrhs Scorbuts loss of appetite Crudities Obstructions Palsies and what not V. If you eat a large breakfast eat no dinner if you eat no dinner eat an early supper if you eat a supper eat no breakfast if no breakfast eat an early dinner and by this means you will keep your stomack clean strong and vigorous and preserve thereby a good digestion and distribution of your food Custom and company cause us commonly more than thirst and hunger to eat and drink but when hunger and thirst invite us

Herbs throwing away the husks as you eat it sweeten it with a very little Sugar Salt Butter and fine Manchet may be added unless the Disease be very acute Or Take a quart of water put to it a spoonful or two of Oatmeal and a little Mace when it is sufficiently boil'd put in it seven or eight spoonfuls of white or Rhenish-wine to make it more nourishing if the Disease will bear it beat up an Egg with a little Sugar and put some of the hot liquour to it and then give it a walm or two Or Take Tamarinds or Pruens wash them in several Waters then stone them and cut them small boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water and Oatmeal and strain the juyce from the flesh as you did the Currants and add to it a little Sugar when you eat it All sorts of Broths Ptisans and Suppings made of Barley clean pick'd hul'd and wash'd in many waters is very pleasing to persons sick of hot Diseases So are all tart sharp and sowre things as Verjuyce Barberries Vinegar Gooseberries Cervices Oranges Lemons dryed Grapes or our common red Cherries dryed quench thirst cool cause appetite and please most sick Pallats Sorrel is a most noble and useful plant Possets made of it are excellent in ardent or malignant Fevers the Green-sauce made of it is the best of all Sauces for Flesh Gooseberries not full ripe sealded and eaten with good Water a little Sugar and Rose-water Marmalade of Gooseberries is also a dainty repast for weak and sickly persons so is their Quideny the Quideny of Currants both white and red do the like so do Barberries either preserved or in the conserve and many such like d●●nties made by ingenuous Gentlewomen Tamarind Possets are also very pleasing and profitable in all hot Diseases 'T is made thus Take three pints or two quarts of Milk boil in it about two peny worth of Tamarinds which you may buy at the Apothecaries until it turn the Milk then strain it from its Curds Thus is made White-wine Rhenish Lemon Orange Sorrel Pippin and all Possets made of sowre things wh ch are excellent in Fevers and all Diseases coming of Choler Vinegar Possets will do as well as any Apples quodled and eaten with Water Sugar and Verjuyce are grateful to a hot and dry constitution So Pru●ns stew'd with Sorrel Verjuyce or Juyce of Lemon Endive Succory Dandelyon Spinage Beets Pur●lain Borrage Bugloss Violet Strawberries Cy●qfoyl Raspeberries Mulberries Burnet Quince Plantain Dampsons Lettice Cucumbers Eggs potch'd into Water Vinegar or Verjuyce and eaten with Sorrel sipits or Vinegar and fine Sugar may be permitted persons whose Disease is not acute or Eggs beaten in a Platter with Butter-milk to a moderate thickness and sugar'd is also excellent Two-Milk Posset that is boil a quart of Milk to this put a pint of Butter-milk take off the Curd and you have a pleasant Posset This Bocheet made of Ivory is also excellent Take Spring-water three pints boil it away to two when it is cold put to it one ounce of shavings of Ivory a few Coriander or Carryway-Seeds you may add also as many bruised Currants as Ivory put them all in a Tin Coffee-pot adding as you think fit a little liquorish and let them stand simpering by the fire four or five hours then strain them and keep the liquor in the pot to drink when you will as Coffee to make it a more pleasant repast you may put a little Rhenish wine to it and dulcifie it with a little powder of white Sugar candy Cullis and Jelly of Ivory and Harts-horn is a good Restorative Diet for hot maciated persons make it thus Take a Chicken or young Cockerel Pheasant Snipe or Wood cock those that have not too much money may take Hogs feet Lambs Calves Pigs-pettitoes or Trotters or take the bones of Veal Mutton Hens Pullets Capons c. which have sinews sticking to them Boil all or any of these in the water wherein French Barley has first been bolled throw away the Barley and add to the Water some shavings of Ivory and a few Currants or estoned Raisins when the broth is throughly boiled strain it and when it is cold it will Jelly take from it when 't is cold all the fat from the top and dregs at bottom and to a Porenger of this melted put the yolk of a new laid Egg beaten up with the Juyce of an Orange and a little Sugar and let it stew gently a little while and so drink it Note That all salt and bitter and very sweet things and all hot and dry things are to be avoided while you use this diet and are advised so to do by your Physician as Pepper Ginger Cynamon much Salt Tobacco Brandy and wine unless mix'd with Water strong Beer and Ale and meat especially much rosted and very fat But cooling Odours as Vinegar or Water wherein Rose leaves Violets or any sweet temperate Herbs have been steep'd or a turf of fresh earth often smelt to or to receive much the sent of Cow-dung is good and necessary for hot blooded people CHAP. II. Treats of a Hot Diet for Cold Diseases and Constitutions THe intent of hot Aliments is to heat and dry a cold and moise Constitution to cherish and restore our Native heat when it is deficient by any cold accident or disease If Food vertually hot exceed the second degree of heat as Garlick Onyons Mustard Radish Brandy c. It may not then improperly be called Physick and more fit to be used so than as food and though our bodies are best preserved by things con-natural or moderately hot yet when we do accustom them to things immoderate as much Wine Brandy Tobacco c. We seldom long escape death or some great disease But away with these distinctions of qualities says Mempsis All that concerns this Chapter is to mind you of such things as are contrary to a cold disease a faint weak vapid and watery blood and 't is endless to assert all that may be said on this subject I shall therefore only single out such as are sufficient This Cullis is counted excellent Take a large Cock Capon Sparrows Partridge Snipes or Wood-cocks boil all or any of them in a gallon of Spring-water till they fall in pieces or come to a Pottle then take off all the fat when 't is cold and put to it two quarts of White-wine and then boil it again to a Pottle then clarifie it with two or three Whites of Eggs then dulcisie and Aromatize it with about a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon grosly beaten and about four ounces more or less of fine Sugar colour it with Saffron and perfume it with a grain or two of Musk or Amber-greese and to make it more cordial and costly add to it confect of Alchermes and Hyacynth q. v. strain it through a gelly bag two or three times and eat it alone or mix it with other broths Or Take Calves-feet Cow-heel fresh

are deficient and cannot do it I leave to the bounty of a prudent and liberal conception It is so contriv'd that 't is impossible for the patient to take cold to faint or sweat beyond their strength and own inclinations nor is there any nuissance in it that is incident to Stoving or sweating in other Baths Place here the Figure AN APPENDIX OR Practical Cautions AND DIRECTIONS To be observed about STOVING AND BATHING STtoving and Bathing are two different things the first may not improperly be call'd a dry Bath the other a wet and when ever you meet with the word Bath you are to understand swearing in something that is liquid as luke-warm Milk Milk and Water or only warm water or water prepared with ingredients proper for the diseased person Note also that a Bath with very hot water drys more than it moistens and contracts the skin and pores rather than relax or open them and serves to supply the intention of a cold Bath or bathing in cold water with such parts persons as cannot safely go into cold water But a Bath of heated tepid or warm water is of so great a latitude that it extends it self to most Diseases and serves to use the words of a learned Author on this subject Dr. J. F. effectually more than any thing Physick is prescribed for to defecate the blood and humours to mollifie the hardness of the Spleen and bowels to moisten cool and nourish a hot and dry constitution and liver to rarifie and resolve also all cold congealed humours and to prevent Barrenness and miscarrying that is occasioned by any intemperies of cold heat or dryness When you meet with the word Stove you are to understand sweating as in a Hot-house without any thing that is moist and liquid You will also sometimes find the word Vaporarium used in this Appendix the meaning of which will be known hereafter The Romans were most addicted to Bains or Baths the Lacedemonians Russians Germans and most Northern Nations to Stoves The Turks French and Italians use both Baths and Stoves and as soon as they come out of the Stove they enter into a Bain or Bath of warm water to wash away the recrements slime mador or mud as it were that stoving without bathing is apt to leave upon the skin By this means also the skin is not only made pure clean and smooth but also plump and fleshy and according as the Bath may be dulcified and prepared it will nourish feed and refresh the limbs and musculous parts more than food nor is there any thing to be done by the natural Baths at Bathe but may be also performed by artificial Baths of Sulphur Bitumen Nitre c. and being advisedly used they do as manifestly answer the expectation of the patient as any remedies whatever in order to which observe these few Directions 1. Never Stove when the blood wants ferment or according to the Notion of the Chymist when the fixed salts of the blood have over-ruled the volatil as in Dropsies and some sorts of Scurvies But when the Sulphur of the blood is too much exalted the fomes of most acute diseases or acrimony and acidity has insinuated it self into the Mass and yet the blood not vapid then the Stove is a proper and most effectual remedy Or more plainly according to the significant apparent and practical meaning of the Galenist Stoving is not so proper and beneficial for weak lean hot hectick dry cholerick maciated melancholy and squalid bodies as bathing nor bathing for cold moist fat corpulent plethorick phlegmatick hydropick constitutions and diseases as stoving The Stove is most proper for the Spring Autum and Winter the Bath for the heat of Summer the Vaporarium is neither bathing nor stoveing but differing from both and to be used by all sorts of persons at any time 2. Before you Bathe or enter into the Stove if your body be not naturally soluble be sure it be made so by Art Take a gentle Clyster over night if you intend to sweat next morning or take the like Clyster in the afternoon if you intend to sweat at night An hour before bed-time and two or three hours after you have eaten a light supper is the best time both for bathing and stoving because you may lie all night after in your bed and have your body well refresh'd and settled by morning Note also that while you are sweating in a Stove Bath or Bed you may refresh your self with Mace-ale Egg caudle Chicken-broth or any convenient Bocheet supping or liquid Aliment 3. When you come out of any Stove or Bath take great care you take not cold For preventing which and many other accidents nothing hath ever yet been invented comparable to this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Balneum and vaporarium now all in one presented to you which is so safe so commodious and effectual both for preventing and curing almost all Diseases that nothing ever was or can be advised better for private Families than to have one of them constantly in their houses it being so contrived that it may stand in any bed-chamber with as much conveniency and ornament as a well wrought Chest of Drawers or Cabinet In Italy France Germany Turkie and many other Countries they are so curious and not without good cause so addicted to stoving and bathing that they count their habitations not compleatly furnish'd and well provided and cared for until they have them in their houses esteeming them the most commendable and necessary furniture that belongs to them and scarce a Family of any remark and quality is to be found without them and if our English Gentry especially those that live in the Country remote from Physicians did also take up this custom they would have no cause to repent them of their care and consideration Besides not only their healths but interest and good husbandry might induce them to it it being the most profitable Physician and Apothecary they can make use of Another benefit of having them in their houses is the accommodation of their sevants attendants bedding and linnen and the avoiding many accidents by lying bathing or stoving after strangers by this means also they will be encouraged to use them the oftner at least 't is likely it will induce them not to fail spring and fall those being though no time amiss the most necessary times to prevent Diseases and preserve their bodies in a perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 health and integrity the whole year after I know and am well assured that Physicians would frequently advise their Patients to stoving and bathing had they them in their own houses but the charge and trouble on all occasions of providing them does too often discourage both the Patient and Physician By this means also you may avoid Spring and Fall the use of Diet-Drinks Physick●ale and the like which being at those times so rashly and promiscuously used as they are do more hurt than good Letting blood also